Interview: What Bitcoin Started With Erik Voorhees

Recently Erik Voorhees was interviewed by the Austin Bitcoin Meetup group via skype. Erik Voorhees is an outspoken Bitcoin Entrepreneur and evangelist. During the interview the topics of Bitlicense, Bitcoin Entrepreneurship and privacy were discussed. Bitcoinist has transcribed part of the interview and provided the video feed as well. Can you talk about BitLicence? “I don’t think New York deserves to be regulating anyone – I think the financial market they do regulate is a huge mess – so they should stay the eff out. It [bitlicense] tries to violate individual user privacy. This was my....

Predictably, negativity in regards to Bitcoin is gaining traction as the fiat valuation of it loses the same, and Erik Voorhees, the man behind Coinapult and SatoshiDice you may remember from The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, has (generously) taken the time to respond to a particularly denigrating article in mainstream website the Daily Dot's supplement The Kernel. The article he is responding to is by Gary North, a person Voorhees feels should know better. If you're wondering why Erik would bother to respond to such an uneducated position, it's because "Bitcoin is ultimately a battle of....

Bitcoin has several persistent myths about it that just refuse to die. Stefan Molyneux and Erik Voorhees dispel the myths and talk about the reality of the predominant cryptocurrency. Erik Voorhees is the co-founder of Coinapult, worked as Director of Marketing at BitInstant, and was founder and partial owner of the Bitcoin gambling website SatoshiDice. Follow him on twitter at: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees

The chief executive officer of ShapeShift, Erik Voorhees, is cementing himself as a fan of the DeFi space. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has gained many supporters over recent months, Voorhees being one of them. He is an early adopter of Bitcoin that became one of the first public investors and innovators in the space. Related Reading: […]

Erik Voorhees. Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of ShapeShift, the Switzerland-based digital currency exchange, views Ben Lawsky's bitcoin crackdown as alarmingly similar to North Korean communism. Voorhees made the comparison between Lawsky, the architect of New York State's BitLicense, and North Korea in an interview with The New York Post. Voorhees is not the only bitcoin enthusiast who isn't standing in line to sign up for Lawsky's soon-to-be launched bitcoin consultancy. (Lawsky recently said he plans to begin a consultancy when he leaves his role as head of the New York Financial....